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Re: VSS startup:
Sure try this
Event ID 13 ? Volume Shadow Copy Service Operations
Under:Check that the VSS service is enabled
You then go on a bit including saying:
"I posted no such thing. I stated that increasing the size of the (system) reserved partition *allowed* you to make an image. reread the post. This issue is *NOT* the size of the partition, but the amount of remaining free space therein.
If Windows 7 needed a 200MB reserved partition, one presumes it would create one during install. It does not. Possibly there is there a KB article suggesting such an increase in size?"
A big presumption. System reserved needs 40-50MB shadow storage and a 100MB system reserved partition cuts it a bit fine for some users for some reason not fully known. That is why extending it to ~200MB is a solution.
You also say:
"there are also free space requirements for shadow storage on the partition where the image will be stored."
We know that. Browse this forum (which you appear to want to rename) and you'll find references to that and how to check.
It's a decision for you not to use third party imaging software. I've used Windows inbuilt imaging 100's of times on a number of PCs without problem yet I still use Macrium Reflect as a safeguard. Although Windows 7 is one of the best OSs, it is not bug free and we are not the MS software engineers that wrote it or MS employees.
You can also go over to the Microsoft Community forum - best of luck.
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Last edited by mjf; 16 Jan 2014 at 01:45.